Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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. If you're in most of the United States, it's going to be over a hundred where I am, and I'm looking forward to it. It's time to get wet. All right, let's talk about all the fun things in the news. Here's a little observation I made. I sure remember when I was younger that when people talked about things, they would often talk about things they liked, right? They'd say, I went on vacation. I lik…

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visual. Remember, I always teach you that Trump is the master of visual persuasion. When he talks about the wall, you can picture it in your mind, right? It's a visual thing even if there's no picture. Well, here this is a total visual persuasion. He doesn't need to tell you that Chris Christie has policies you won't like. He can just show a picture of him looking like a slob on a plane. You get the same benefit without all the thinking. So Trump's excellent at that. But so Trump basically gives him a total kill shot. But Chris Christie, he's not down and out yet. He tweets Trump's truth. So he's doing that thing where instead of minimizing it, you're embracing it, right? So he's embracing it sort of like Dark Brandon, you know, Biden trying to embrace Dark Brandon. So he tries to embrace it and he says, Chris Christie says of Trump, living rent free in Donald's head, make me a permanent resident. You know, donate money, blah blah. Living rent free in Donald's head. So I had to tweet about his tweet. So I tweeted Chris Christie's tweet and I said, pro tip: never hire an NPC to do your tweeting. You can test for NPCs by asking them if anyone is above the law. Now, sort of an ongoing joke here. So if that doesn't sound funny to you, it's because you don't know the background to it. But can I give you this advice? If you ever are tempted to say to somebody in 2023 that you're living rent free in their head, you have either fallen into some kind of a time dilation situation where you've traveled back in time to where that made sense to say and it sounds kind of new and edgy to you. Well, let me just say that in 2023 this is really worn out and only an NPC would say you're living rent free in somebody's head. For a while it was a good thing to say. It was pretty kind of clever. It's not clever anymore. It's not clever. And if somebody sings you as good as Trump saying to him, you could say something better than living rent free in Donald's head. All right, so that round goes to Trump.

I'd like to remind you again, this is something I have to remind myself of all the time. A lot of the people on Twitter that you imagine are trolls, you know, that they have some bad opinion and they're just coming in and saying bad things, you should know that a lot of them are just drunk. Like actually they're just drunk. And as soon as you tell yourself that they might be drunk, the experience changes completely. Have you had the experience where a drunk comes up to you and acts drunk and you don't like it, but you're processing it as you're dealing with a drunk? You don't process it as you're dealing with that person and their actual personality in a real situation. You say, oh, that's a drunk. Yeah, I get it. They're not hurting me. They're just drunk. They're just annoying. So trolls can really get under your skin, you know. They can say something that makes you look stupid. So you're like, ah, I'm not gonna look stupid. And I found that by far the best reply to control people who just come on to insult you is I like to say, morning drinking or drunk already. And what's interesting is the number of people who don't push back on that accusation. You'd expect people to say stuff like, I haven't had a drink since the 90s. You know, what do you mean? But they don't. They're usually drunk. I think they're actually drunk. And you know, if they're not drunk, they're inebriated on something. So there's a ton of stuff that you shouldn't think about at all. Just reply to them and ask them if they're drinking and don't say anything else. Don't follow up because they're going to say something like, you think I'm drinking? Look at your tweet. I think you're the one. You know, they're going to say something. It doesn't matter what they say. Just drop your comment that it appears they've been drinking and don't do anything else. Do not engage. You'll be much happier.

Well, there's something called the misery index. Have you heard of that? It's the combination of unemployment and inflation. So if you've got lots of unemployment at the same time you've got lots of inflation, that would be high on the misery index. Well, it turns out that the misery index is down to where it was when Biden took office. It did of course, as you know, zoom. We had high unemployment and high inflation, and both of them come down quite a bit. So the misery index is down. Now the misery index do

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es not measure everything. Yeah, that's interesting. What does it mean when Twitter says there's a rate limit that's reached? Does anybody know what that means? I just saw a tweet as a rate limit. Yeah, I don't know what that means. Anyway, we'll get to that story. The rate limit on it. I just saw that go by on the Locals platform. Wall Street Journal has an editorial in which they're quite poin…

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